Aroca
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/aɾoka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aroca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 4.2K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 8.5K
- COColombia≈1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Aroca itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
5,879 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aroca counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #766 | 5,879 | 1 in 8.5K | 5.9K | Aroca | 131 |
| CO Colombia | #725 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 3 | Aroca | 85 |
| EC Ecuador | #827 | 4,012 | 1 in 4.2K | 4K | Aroca | 33 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,795as Arocha | 1 in 25K | 1.8K | Aroca | 45 |
| US United States | — | 1,670as Arocha | 1 in 199K | 1.7K | Aroca | 92 |
| HN Honduras | #474 | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Aroca | 14 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 442as Arocha | 1 in 7.7K | 442 | — | 8 |
5,879 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gonzalo Guerrerob. 1470ESnot in their usual nameSpanish explorer
- Jesús Aroca y Ortegab. 1877ESspanischer Dirigent
- Guido Arocab. 1881ITItalian politician
- Ricardo Aroca Hernández-Rosb. 1940ESSpanish architect
- Joan Aymerich i Arocab. 1944ESSpanish politician
- José M. Aroca Hernández Rosb. 1945ESSpanish mathematician
- Javier Arocab. 1954ESAnthropology
- Ricardo Patiñob. 1955ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian politician
- Alfonso Arocab. 1981ESSpanish composer
- José Daniel Aroca AguilarESSpanish researcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 5.9K | #923 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5.9K | #923 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 4K | #903 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 4K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.6K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 232 | #86,457 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 181 | #99,845 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 159 | #104,257 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2010 | 79 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2014 | 76 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1999 | 75 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1995 | 74 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Aroca?
- A machine transcription gives /aɾoka/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Aroca have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 5.9 thousand people named Aroca, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aroca.
- Where is Aroca most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aroca is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 4.2 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Aroca?
- In Spain, the national register counted 5,879 people named Aroca, about 1 in 8.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Aroca compared with other names?
- In Spain, Aroca is the 766th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arocaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aroca” — the 766th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.